(French Fleet on its way to the Baltic). "L'escade cuirassee francaise, partant de Cherbourg pour la Baltique".

(French Fleet on its way to the Baltic). "L'escade cuirassee francaise, partant de Cherbourg pour la Baltique".

Signature: A. L. Morel-Fatio. Color lithograph, after 1870. Dimensions: 27 x 44.5 cm; (whole board: 41 x 51.5 cm).
View of the French fleet leaving the port of Cherbourg on July 24, 1870, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War. On August 2, the ships sailed to the Baltic to blockade German ports. Below the composition a description of the event in French , all the ships are signed. Lithograph from the series "Le flotte de nos jours" (The fleet of our time), signed, based on a painting by Antoine Leon Morel-Fatio (1810-1871), French marine painter, official painter of the French fleet (who died of a heart attack while seeing Prussian troops attacking the Louvre). In the lower margin, stamped by a marshal from Toulon. Graphic after conservation.